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  • Hello everybody.

  • This is cushy.

  • Tani.

  • Tani is a very famous Japanese motorcycle clothing outfitter.

  • They have all the goods jackets, shoes, gloves, all sorts of cool things.

  • We were, we have been talking with them to see if we can get some equipment for our trip up to Hokkaido.

  • Get some recommendations.

  • And we're gonna be taking you inside of the shop.

  • Also telling you about talking about our trip to Hokkaido this summer.

  • We're gonna be riding around the entire island by motorcycle and camping car.

  • We need the right gear and I think this might be exactly who we're going to find it.

  • Let's go inside.

  • Say hi to PBG.

  • He's probably trying stuff on already.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • Hey there.

  • Hey, I see you found some jackets and yeah, these jackets are awesome, man.

  • Look at this.

  • So they've got, they have a huge selection here.

  • I don't know if you can hear me?

  • They've got a really big selection here guys.

  • And for they've got winter weight.

  • Autumn, Autumn spring is kind of a hybrid.

  • No, so we're riding here in Japan and in Con toe in summertime, smoking hot and so humid and you really need like a mesh type jacket.

  • So we've got plenty of those.

  • They're, they're lightweight.

  • Wind blows through, but we'll be in Hokkaido.

  • So we're gonna need something a little bit.

  • It's still warm in Hokkaido, but it doesn't have that humid air.

  • And so you need something that's kind of a hybrid of some, some mesh, but also a little more meat to it.

  • Right?

  • Japan, Japan's weather in the summer.

  • It is unbearably hot.

  • But the humidity makes it really tough when you're riding on a motorcycle, the air is coming through.

  • So mesh works.

  • There's an expression I'd rather sweat than bleed.

  • Did you tell me it means that when you're riding a motorcycle, you probably want to be well protected.

  • Okay.

  • Yeah, you gotta be well protected.

  • That does look good.

  • Hold on.

  • No way.

  • That, that is a nice looking jacket sir.

  • Yeah, it's got the vent in the back, All the, all the motorcycle jackets, they have protection in it.

  • Can you show me the padding on the elbows?

  • It's like armor points of contact.

  • Right?

  • When you do, if you were to crash, which we hope we don't, we have some protection on it.

  • And that's why these jackets are, they don't just, you have, Oh yeah.

  • You feel that?

  • Sorry?

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • Sorry.

  • I got a little bit excited.

  • Uh, cause Tony is a company that's been around for a second, is a company that's been around for 75 years.

  • Uh, we met the third generation of it and it was his grandmother, his grandmother who started the company Cristiani started after World War two.

  • And from that, from the Suzuki's and the Honda's grew into a culture of motorcycle clothing and they have all sorts of stuff, including these full on.

  • Yeah, the suits, The racing suits, racing suits are so awesome.

  • Oh my gosh.

  • And there.

  • So I just want to walk around Tokyo with this.

  • Maybe you should be wearing one of these john for our trip.

  • Look at that, feel the weight of that.

  • Is it?

  • Hold on.

  • Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, that's a really heavy.

  • These are, these are about $3,000.

  • They are.

  • You can imagine the protection on it.

  • Well, that's for racing so we don't have no intention to go, oh my gosh, what is this for?

  • Well, if you land on your back and slide down the track and you know, it's got in the, in the booty, if you do a booty scoot e, it's really thick.

  • The leather.

  • Hold on a second.

  • I confirm, yes.

  • So it does look like, it looks like a dark tater writes in here.

  • It looks like a marvel costume.

  • It does.

  • Now they're based there originally in Hamamatsu.

  • Does anybody know where that is?

  • What?

  • Prefecture 3-1?

  • It is in Shizuoka, you can tell from this beautiful logo of Mount Fuji.

  • Um I've been spending a lot of time in Shizuoka prefecture recently.

  • I love the logo.

  • It's just so cool.

  • Right.

  • Oh man.

  • And we're seeing all sorts of things for protectors.

  • They have gloves here.

  • Let's take a look down the other side.

  • I've noticed like we know in Japan, there's a culture of trains as a culture of cars, you know, a lot of the world.

  • Carmakers here, the shoes right here, Peter, the carmakers, Honda, Toyota Mitsubishi, tons of car makers.

  • but there's also a really strong culture of motorcycles here?

  • Suzuki Honda are two of the big ones and um, along with that, you have motorcycle gear and I'm just getting into it because I'm getting my motorcycle license right now, but um, looking at the gear, it's just so much fun to, I don't know, be exposed to something.

  • I've never, I've never seen motorcycle gear, like had to go shopping for it before.

  • Well, and the japanese are very much, they like to coordinate.

  • So when they're, there's their clothing, their outfits on the motorcycle.

  • So you often see these guys that are riding where everything matches the gloves match the color of the tank on the bike and they take it very seriously, Fashion is super important.

  • Yeah, I can feel it.

  • No, I'm not wearing anything, but yeah, so this is a different style.

  • So many styles.

  • Can you do a catwalk around?

  • Oh, you are totally squeezing you.

  • I know, just flip around right there.

  • You don't have to Okay, just do it.

  • That's nice.

  • Oh yeah, I think that the armor in the jacket makes you look like um, who's that guy who's the guy with the baseball bat from Walking Dead negan, you look so much like negan with that jacket, You just need a baseball bat, very cool and they've got for the winter, or rather the summer weight jackets, They've got all these zippers for different events.

  • What do you put in there?

  • Like you only have space for like one cigarette or a pen.

  • No, it's for the air to blow through the air.

  • I thought it was a zipper to put stuff in it.

  • No, unzip it to let air through.

  • That's for air.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • You know it's really ingenious is I'm not sure if this model has it, check this out.

  • No, I don't know if this is if this is unique to cush Tani but it's the first time I've seen this, the first time I've seen this feature on a jacket, Check this out.

  • So let's make the presto change o here.

  • Alright, here's the normal zipping.

  • Okay, so the air is you've got air block, right?

  • So you're on the on the expressway or wherever the air is blowing, being bounced off of you.

  • Well if you get hot you just unzip it, you pull over first naturally, you unzip it and then it has this, check this out.

  • That's a mess.

  • Don't you swing it around?

  • Okay?

  • Here?

  • Oh yeah, you can see the messiness.

  • The air is gonna go straight through that.

  • So you zip it on this part of the zipper and then you got a mesh screen so the air blows through and it blows through the jacket.

  • You got this, you got this, you can put stuff in there.

  • Yeah, you could put a deck of cards but just really nice, they're really nicely made.

  • The fitting is good As many bikers know?

  • Yeah, thanks.

  • It's still there.

  • There's pads there and the back is the pad.

  • Trust me, there's pads.

  • Okay, trust me.

  • So, as bikers know oftentimes when you wear motorcycle jackets, they just don't fit well.

  • They're, they're really kind of bulky or their restrictive when you try to bend your arms or whatever.

  • These jackets have been thought through very well.

  • So there's, there's lots of mobility in them and they're just comfortable and they're stylish.

  • I really like them.

  • I like the style of it makes you look like a badass.

  • Well, I am one it makes you look like, this just confirms it.

  • Oh God.

  • Um, the gloves are pretty sweet too.

  • I've noticed all different kinds of levels of protection and levels and different quality of material, different types of material, mostly in leather.

  • Um, I didn't know about motorcycle gloves until about a month ago, but um, around the knuckles, Things can hit you and fly at you and you wanna have protection on the knuckles as well as if you were to fall, you want to have extra protection on the palms of your hands.

  • And um, that's what makes the motorcycle gloves um, pretty unique.

  • Again, for summer, there's different kinds of them.

  • You can see again, the knuckle protection here.

  • Uh, I believe we're gonna get a pair of summer gloves.

  • I just fell in love with them.

  • These are nice too.

  • You can see it and they make it look like a bad because imagine you go into a bar, you don't want to get in a fight with someone who has uh, motorcycle gloves on, looks like I was super hero, wow, it's just a lot of fun to go shopping for something that completely different.

  • It's refreshing.

  • I guess brand down here, right in here, super excited for you guys is, here's something small for the pre Kickstarter, which we're gonna be launching next week.

  • Integra opposite ticks here.

  • I'm too sexy for my jacket.

  • Is that a whole song too sexy for my jacket?

  • Too sexy?

  • What was that song from the 80s too sexy for my gosh, I can't remember, but we're that old, That's a couple of bald dudes.

  • That's leathers.

  • Yeah.

  • Oh my God, Nice.

  • These are like, do you think this is too small for me because of my barrel chest?

  • What do you think, john if you're a zombie, you'd be the motorcycle zombie walking around just like that nice and stiff.

  • But this, this style is more for, you know, a track racing, bike, things like that.

  • We will not be doing racing at all.

  • We're just touring.

  • Trust me safety first.

  • Um, I've noticed this too.

  • They've got a ton of, just normal wear that doesn't have armor in it and I'm kind of digging that, right?

  • The windbreakers and stuff.

  • Yeah, but I like the one with armor because if you're a dude walking around town with an armored jacket.

  • That's just awesome.

  • No 1's gonna, well, well I can punch you in the back and you don't have it on now, so don't do it.

  • The bags are pretty sweet as well.

  • I'm learning all the different kinds of bags that each bag is a different purpose, whether it's a tank bag or a side bag or a backpack bag or was a Fannie pack bag.

  • There's lots of different types of bags for motorcycling.

  • I'm still trying to get my bearings traveling around is really cool.

  • The one place that I want to go next, if we, if we can get access to go inside and film is that rico land?

  • We didn't get a chance to show everybody rico land, which is on another really neat place with electronics and things like that.

  • That's in.

  • We, we actually drove out there one day.

  • That is a nice, I like that color.

  • It's like something from the Easy collection by Kanye West that matches your car.

  • Yeah, look at that.

  • Oh my God.

  • Yeah.

  • What do you think?

  • I like it?

  • I think this is, we're not gonna have to worry about bears in Hokkaido john we have to worry about the ladies chasing us down.

  • I don't know.

  • I don't think that's gonna happen.

  • Don't worry about.

  • Can I chasing me?

  • She'll be able to find me in that color.

  • Look at is that leather?

  • Hold on a second.

  • Let me, okay go for the back.

  • You have a hard punch to my elbow.

  • All right.

  • Nice chest is their armor, chest, chest armor.

  • My naturally my chest is armor.

  • That was a wax on wax off hit ready wax off.

  • You were totally, you need some Yagi there.

  • Nice.

  • Huh?

  • It is nice.

  • I like it.

  • I love that Sheen.

  • The leather leather hood.

  • The leather works good for motorcycles.

  • Why?

  • Why is leather such a well john if you come off the bike, you come off, you come off the bike.

  • You gotta have some protection.

  • That's what the leather is all about.

  • So if you're sliding, scraping nothing to do with fashion.

  • Well, it's fashion too.

  • Okay man, I make this look good.

  • You don't have that.

  • You don't have any chest hair.

  • What are you talking about?

  • I do.

  • All right.

  • And we have the shoes as well as a lot of other.

  • We also, I also tried on this earlier.

  • It's a really light like a sweatshirt material, but the sweatshirt has armor in it.

  • And this is what's so awesome.

  • Like when you're writing in the summer, you want that airflow, you want to have it breathing.

  • And this is a type of jacket.

  • I think this would be great.

  • Um, in, you know, spring, even in the summer to wear that, it would be really nice.

  • It's not waterproof, but It's a picking a motorcycle jacket is really cool.

  • Most of them seem to be about, I don't know, 20 to 40,000 yen.

  • Right, Peter yeah, Around you know, like $150-$300 I'd say.

  • Or $400 you can get even more expensive.

  • Um, it depends on the season and the material, but I'm really impressed.

  • Um, I've never gone shopping before for motorcycle gear and this is uh, this is the first, there's some pretty cool stuff here.

  • This shop is in Setagaya.

  • It's not far from Tamagawa, which is where I'm studying to get the motorcycle license and I'll probably back again.

  • Um, before we go to Hokkaido by the way, let's talk, let's talk a little bit about that trip.

  • Huh?

  • We haven't, we haven't, we haven't talked about it.

  • So we're gonna be leaving on On July 28 and will be riding for the 1st 55 days, five nights right on a motorcycle.

  • Then we're gonna come back to pick up an RV camper and then do a long haul around from Nemuro up to the peninsula Stokoe all the way around to that's right all around the city and down to Asahikawa.

  • How we gave the blue pond and through um Furano and your body and be a, that's where the blue pond is.

  • It's gonna be pretty sweet.

  • We're gonna make a documentary, which looks like it's gonna be somewhere between an hour and a half to two hours long.

  • I'm showing you the, I knew culture that's there as well as some of the really unique attractions of Al Qaeda.

  • So I'm pretty stoked about about this trip.

  • It's not just the, not just the site that we'll be seeing, but the way we'll be seeing them, I'm really jazzed for you to be on these bikes because I've done it as I've told you, I've done this three times now.

  • This will be the fourth time riding a motorcycle in Hokkaido and it is stellar.

  • And for you, it's gonna be baptism by fire.

  • But man, what a way to start.

  • So what, what?

  • I've got a Honda 400 X.

  • Is that a touring bike?

  • It's, it's a cross, it's a, it's an on off road type.

  • Are we going off road?

  • I mean, Okay.

  • And you've got a Nissan, I forget, I forget.

  • Um no, it's a Yamaha Tracer.

  • 900.

  • That's always pretty cool Tracer.

  • So we've got one big boy bike and one little boy bike.

  • It's a middle sized bike.

  • They're smaller ones.

  • Well, you don't want to start too big.

  • That's fine.

  • That'll be plenty of power for you.

  • Middle sized bike.

  • Okay.

  • Just not speak small.

  • I can always get your pronunciation.

  • Nice to see you here.

  • Is there a link for the trip?

  • Not yet.

  • We're gonna um actually editing the video, we had to do a couple of retakes because he had something in his teeth.

  • So I'm editing that, that should I, once we apply for it, I think on monday, um, it's gonna take a couple of days before Kickstarter approves it.

  • And then the campaign will be live pretty cool documentary postcards.

  • We've got Tanguy which are the karate kid bandana, like things, the tango and bandanas.

  • We have tote bags, perhaps some, some light stuff, but we want to keep it really digital and fun, but fun for everybody.

  • Right, fun for everybody.

  • We should get some gloves.

  • Oh man jake loves.

  • Alright folks, that's all we wanted to do today.

  • Just show you a little bit around here.

  • If you have any questions, you can leave a comment below.

  • I'll put a link to this location uh Bustani long history of making motorcycle gear, 75 years.

  • Third generation owners still run by the original owners and the style is outstanding.

  • You get a little mount fuji logo with the logo on it.

  • That's not a bad word, badass.

  • It's one word.

  • Yeah, it depends how you spell it and the way you spell.

  • Yeah.

  • What?

  • Thanks for joining us guys and there will be more coming as we update.

  • Yes, that was really nice.

  • Yeah, they're super friendly.

  • I'm just, I'm just really, really appreciative that it's moved by a small, it's like a family business.

  • So yeah, I like that.

  • Yeah, so there you go.

  • Itani hamamatsu, they have a branch here in Setagaya Right here in Yoga Station about a five minute walk.

  • Thanks everybody see you later.

Hello everybody.

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